Nov 16 2020 10:28 PM
Greetings Insiders,
The ability to add text comments on PDF documents is one of the features we provided for the PDF reader in legacy Microsoft Edge. We have heard feedback that some of you miss this useful feature, so we are pleased to announce that we are bringing it back to Microsoft Edge! Here is how you can access this functionality in the latest version of Canary and Dev.
To try it out, open any PDF file in Microsoft Edge. Select the piece of text you want to comment on and invoke the right click context menu. You will see the new Add comment option in the menu.
Clicking that option will open a text box where you can add your comment. Then simply type the comment you want to leave on the document, then click the checkmark to save the comment.
Once a note is added, the selected text will be highlighted, and a comment icon will appear to indicate the comment. You can hover over that icon to preview the comment or click on it to open and edit it.
Alternatively, you can also add comment on a text highlight you had previously added in the document. Just right click on any existing text highlight to add a comment on it. You can add as many comments as you want on a PDF document. You can also delete the comments previously added using the Delete button present inside the note.
Once you are done adding your comments on the document, you can save the document so that your comments are saved as part of the document. You can access the comments anytime later by opening the saved document in Microsoft Edge.
Try out the text comment tool in latest Canary or Dev channel and let us know what you think! We would love to hear your feedback to make improvements in future. From within Microsoft Edge, you can go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+I) on a PC to open the feedback tool.
- The Microsoft Edge Product Team
Nov 17 2020 11:57 AM
Thanks for the update,
I really like to see the commenting and highlight feature to be the same as Edge legacy, because it was easier and more convenient
you just needed to highlight a text and then choose comment/highlight/copy/search
Nov 17 2020 02:05 PM
@vygadeka Thanks for the update. It's great to see these improvements on PDFs.
This is one of the most requested features users asks for at Forums. Looking forward to give it a try!
Nov 17 2020 07:26 PM - edited Nov 17 2020 07:27 PM
@HotCakeX we are currently working on a similar quick access menu for making these tools handy to use. It would show up in the builds soon. Till then we wanted to enable everyone to use the comment tool from context menu. Thanks for the prompt feedback, as always
Nov 17 2020 08:53 PM
Nov 18 2020 01:29 AM
@vygadeka wrote:@HotCakeXwe are currently working on a similar quick access menu for making these tools handy to use. It would show up in the builds soon. Till then we wanted to enable everyone to use the comment tool from context menu. Thanks for the prompt feedback, as always
Thanks, it's good to know that it's on the way :)
Nov 18 2020 07:04 AM
Thank you @vygadeka
It is very helpful feature and hope to see it in official release of Microsoft Edge soon.
It would have been nice if there was possibility of add different color for comments too. In addition, having ability to navigate to next or previous comment (like feature in Microsoft Word) would have been interesting.
In case of ability to set different color, usability study is needed so it won't conflict with Highlight colors.
Nov 18 2020 09:27 AM
@Reza_Ameri-Archived wrote:Thank you @vygadeka
It is very helpful feature and hope to see it in official release of Microsoft Edge soon.
It would have been nice if there was possibility of add different color for comments too. In addition, having ability to navigate to next or previous comment (like feature in Microsoft Word) would have been interesting.
In case of ability to set different color, usability study is needed so it won't conflict with Highlight colors.
You can already add different colors for comments, it's done using highlights.
no conflicts.
I think in the table of contents of PDFs, there should be indications so we can see which pages contain notes/comments.
Nov 18 2020 09:45 AM
I think in the table of contents of PDFs, there should be indications so we can see which pages contain notes/comments.
That's a great suggestion! I don't know what the feasibility of that would be (not all PDFs support having a ToC,) but I could definitely see the value in that functionality.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Nov 18 2020 01:32 PM
@vygadeka Thanks for adding this. I would also like to have a Comments pane where I can see a list of all the comments in the document, similar to Adobe Reader.
Nov 18 2020 07:53 PM
Nov 18 2020 09:56 PM
Nov 19 2020 06:03 AM
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The indicator for notes could be in scroll bar , like it highlight areas where there is comment in scroll bar and user quickly move to them and also ability to click next/prev comments (like Microsoft Word comment)
Nov 19 2020 12:09 PM
@Reza_Ameri-Archived Are you looking for a similar UI to when you use the "Ctrl+F" functionality within Microsoft Edge?
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Nov 19 2020 08:52 PM
Nov 20 2020 02:06 AM
Nov 20 2020 06:51 AM
@Deleted
Yes, you are right.
However, we should consider it should work in a way to avoid conflict , let say we have documents with notes and we also want to find text like you mentioned. Probably, there should be different colors or different look and feel , so people would know which one is note and which one is search.
Nov 22 2020 12:42 AM
Nov 24 2020 06:47 PM
Nov 25 2020 12:05 AM
That was an interesting comment :)
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